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they say the upkeep alone is 200m a year. Does it not make more sense to only route 300m away from London then?
If you keep reading there's another (up to) £150 million of that used for renewing roads.
The roads are probably a lot worse in other parts of the UK
If we're talking "probably", they're probably less used as well.
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200+150, that means 350 in total, still doesn't make sense to me why the government decides to take more away than is necessary, rather than rethink the whole approach.
Fair enough on the quality, I don't know if there's a "pothole depth" or a "congestion cos there the roads should have been widened 10 years ago" or other metrics to compare London to the rest of the UK.
Some of the roads in Belfast city centre are a collection of patched potholes, but they haven't been renewed for a very long time, which is probably simply lack of cash allocation.
JWestland
"Furthermore, from 2021, the £500m raised every year from Londoners paying Vehicle Excise Duty will be collected by central Government and only invested in roads outside the Capital."
? The roads are probably a lot worse in other parts of the UK, but they say the upkeep alone is 200m a year. Does it not make more sense to only route 300m away from London then?